Rockford Park District staffs up for summer
April 24, 2024Whether terrifying or terrific, awesome or awful, everyone remembers their first summer job and the life lessons it taught. Finding summer employment is an adolescent rite of passage…
Whether terrifying or terrific, awesome or awful, everyone remembers their first summer job and the life lessons it taught. Finding summer employment is an adolescent rite of passage…
Lake in the Hills village officials broke ground Friiday with a ceremony to mark the start of construction on a new facility for its police department. Work is expected to continue…
The Madison County Board on April 17 gave the green light to an advisory referendum that would allow the board to explore the possibility of the county becoming part of a new state. …
Chicago native Ed Tunney knows a thing or two about building homes. Tunney, who is the brother of former 44th Ward Alderman and Ann Sather’s owner Tom Tunney, has developed hundreds…
The Chicago-based Steans Family Foundation is looking to rehab an 110-year-old,168,000-square-foot, five-story industrial building at 4100 W. Filmore St., in Chicago’s North Lawndale…
In 2023, NIU’s Edible Campus program broke ground on more than 100 raised beds throughout campus as well as the 5,000-square-foot Anderson Market Garden. One year later, the campus…
Waubonsee Community College’s planned Technical Education Center could double the enrollment capacity for students in a variety of automotive, welding and emerging programs while…
Local public relations and media leaders Michelle Mekky and Mika Stambaugh are joining forces to lead a training opportunity providing business professionals tools, tips, and knowledge…
Wet fields kept the majority of Illinois farmers from planting for a second consecutive week, but windows for field work will be arriving soon. In addition, the U.S. EPA finally green-lighted…
Third in a series looking at the public funding of sports stadiums in Illinois Pat Quinn was on the ice in 2010 when the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, and in Houston in 2005 when…
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois continues to suffer from a shortage of teachers and other education professionals, although recent efforts by the state to ease the strain have made an impact….
SPRINGFIELD — Two bills that would regulate battery disposal and storage are awaiting action from the full Illinois Senate after unanimous committee approval. Senate Bill 3481, sponsored…
Scott Britton walked out to driveway to get his Sunday newspaper, only to find near it a plastic bag filled with rice (to keep it from blowing away) and anti-Semitic literature. Britton,…
First in a series looking at the public funding of Illinois sports stadiums Tom Tresser gets sick every time he hears something is needed to make Chicago “a world-class city.” “It…
SPRINGFIELD — A panel of Illinois lawmakers began hearing testimony Wednesday on Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s proposals for sweeping changes in the state’s health insurance industry….